Category: Food / Water

  • Dutch Oven Cooking While Camping

    Dutch Oven Cooking While Camping

    Believe it or not, these past few days was the first time we managed to get away and do a bit of camping with the kids this year. Of course, we had a lot of fun, played plenty of games (my arm about fell off playing catch), and we got to break in a new Dutch…

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 18 Results (the FINAL week!)

    Here we are on the final week of this experiment and, to be honest, I’m glad it’s coming to an end. Here’s the egg (it didn’t float or smell weird): And here it is cooking (the yolk/membrane broke down without me doing anything): As with last week, I choose to eat it as an egg…

  • Why Seasonings Are Necessary Preps to Stockpile

    I don’t know about you but I would be hard-pressed to think of any meal that didn’t make use of some form of seasoning to enhance the often bland flavor of a base meal. Think about everything you eat and I’m willing to bet the vast majority of it has been seasoned, from soups and stews to…

  • What Would You Do With 3 Cups of This Stuff in a Grid-Down Situation?

    Can you guess what this is?… I’ll give you a hint, it’s edible and normally thrown out. Give up or already know? Ok, it’s simply leftover juices from an assortment of canned foods–such as beans and corn–when I made a meal a few weeks back. Though I’m not sure why, instead of draining the juice right…

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 17 Results

    Here we are, only two eggs left. I think I’ll be glad when this experiment is over. 🙂 Anyway, here’s this week’s egg (didn’t float or smell funny): And this is the egg cooking up (the yolk stayed fairly well in-tact): As with other recent eggs, it did seem to break down relative easily (I…

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 16 Results

    I know this post is late for the day but I’ve been under the weather, please excuse me. So, here’s this week’s egg (it didn’t float): As I wasn’t planning on eating this egg tonight since we just had dinner, I cracked it onto a disposable plate: To my surprise, this egg looked really good.…

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 15 Results

    This egg kind of reminds me to an egg from a few weeks ago. As per usual, the egg didn’t float and didn’t smell funny either: Upon cracking, the egg yolk (membrane) broke apart: And here it is cooking (it seemed to fall apart rather easily when flipping as I wasn’t trying to scramble it):…

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 14 Results

    Results were eerily similar to last week… Here’s the mineral oil egg (it didn’t float or smell funny): And here it is cooking: Even though the yolk looked fairly well together I noticed it breaks down really easily (like last week): Again, I ate a few bites (it was late and I’m beginning to wonder…

  • Why Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Are Important to Long Term Food Storage

      Many people, me included, recommend vitamin supplements in your long term preps. Then, as I often do, I got to wondering how important they really were and if they’re possibly not needed at all. So, I figured the easiest way to decide this is to compare the numbers. Therefore, I looked for an easy to…